Imagine you could increase your intelligence as much as you desire. Would you want to be as intelligent as possible?
Even if you think you would, you would regret it. Imagine being so intelligent you could not have conversations with normal people anymore, as each point they make is predictable and their words are imprecise. Someone would attempt to convey something to you and instead of being intrigued by their perspective, you would roll your eyes at all the incorrect aspects of their clumsy, illogical statement.
There is an ideal range of intelligence to live a good life, and being on the very top is outside of the range.
Imagine you could do the same to your eyesight, and you could improve your vision as much as you wanted. You may think you would want to max it out, but imagine your eyesight was so good you look across the room and all you see are atoms flying all over the air. You are unable to see through all the particles we regularly forget exist, unable to see a person’s face that you are talking to through all the matter in the air.
These drawbacks to maximizing help articulate that we should be ecstatic that we are in the ideal range to live a meaningful life. We think we desire more, but if we have more, we may be desperate to go back to how we originally were.
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